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title: Stopping screens at a fixed time, with a quiet wind-down before bed,… — Gaming nights and the morning after · tree and pragmatics
description: Stopping screens at a fixed time, with a quiet wind-down before bed, helps children fall asleep faster. Who acts: Stopping, children. A sentence of the lesson «Gaming nights and the morning after» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Gaming nights and the morning after, sentence 13

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Stopping screens at a fixed time, with a quiet wind-down before bed, helps children fall asleep faster.

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**Who acts:** Stopping, children · **What happens:** stop, fix, help, fall · **To what, where:** screens, children

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gaming nights and the morning after» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stopping, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:057-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after.lesson:13
# text = Stopping screens at a fixed time, with a quiet wind-down before bed, helps children fall asleep faster.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 057-gaming-nights-and-the-morning-after.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj
2	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:xcomp
21	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | gerund |  | screens |  |  | time | with a quiet wind down before bed | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector screen=Eventuality with down=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **fix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **help** | present | Stopping | children |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | infinitive | children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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